Calcification Rates of Crustose Coralline Algae (CCA) Derived from Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2012 to 2015

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The calcification rate data described here are derived from calcification accretion units (CAUs) that were retrieved from fixed climate survey sites located in coral reef habitats during the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) led United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission to Batangas, Philippines in 2015. CAUs are PVC settlement plates that facilitate the recruitment and colonization of crustose coralline algae, hard corals, and other reef calcifiers. Laboratory experiments show that CCA and coral calcification rates are strongly correlated with seawater chemistry, and changes in carbonate chemistry conditions due to ocean acidification could lead to reduced calcification and accretion rates and ecological phase shifts in coral reef communities. Coral reef calcium carbonate accretion rates can be estimated by measuring the change in weight of the CAUs between deployment and retrieval. Monitoring net accretion over successive deployments allows for the detection of changes in reef calcification rates over time. Five units were deployed on the seafloor at each CAU site for 3 years. The number of processed CAUs for a site may be less than the number deployed, either because the units were lost or damaged at sea and therefore not recovered, or in rare instances, due to errors during laboratory processing. This study provides information about spatial and temporal patterns of reef carbonate calcification and accretion rates and serves as a basis for detecting changes associated with changing seawater chemistry due to ocean acidification. These data can also be used in comparative analyses across natural gradients, thereby assisting efforts to determine whether key reef-building taxa can acclimatize to changing oceanographic environments. These data will have immediate, direct impacts on predictions of reef resilience in a higher carbon dioxide (CO2) world and on the design of reef management strategies.

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0 Quality control report generated for recovered CAU data from climate survey sites in the municipalities of Mabini and Tingloy in Batangas, Philippines (near the Verde Island Passage), including Batong Buhay, Koala Reserve Area, Arthur's Reef, Twin Rocks, and Batalang Bato by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during the recovery shore-based mission in 2015 (MP1507). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162831
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/45816
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Assembly, Deployment, and Recovery Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Calcification Accretion Unit (CAU) Laboratory Analysis Standard Operating Procedure (2015). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 NOAA PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Program blog post from the 2013 mission to the Philippines. https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/verde-island-passage/
0 NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division official website, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP) page. https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/pacific_ramp.php
0 Official page for Coral Triangle Initiative. https://www.coraltriangleinitiative.org/
0 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center website https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/surveying-vast-ocean
0 Online Resource https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26641885
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/45816.pdf
0 CAU unit recoveries collected across climate survey sites in the municipalities of Mabini and Tingloy in Batangas, Philippines (near the Verde Island Passage), including Batong Buhay, Koala Reserve Area, Arthur's Reef, Twin Rocks, and Batalang Bato by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division during a shore-based recovery mission in 2015 (MP1507). These CAU units were deployed during a deployment shore-based mission in 2012 (SB1207). Data include calcification rates per CAU unit. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162831

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  • calcification
  • calcification plate
  • crep
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • ocean chemistry
  • pifsc
  • in situ biological
  • verde island passage
  • biosphere
  • philippines from 2012 to 2015
  • calcification accretion unit
  • algal growth
  • oceans
  • ocean acidification
  • algae
  • coral reef conservation program
  • south china sea
  • batong buhay
  • calcareous macroalgae
  • noaa
  • batangas
  • numeric data sets
  • algal cover
  • nmfs
  • baseline studies
  • mabini (13n120e0032)
  • us doc
  • baseline data from climate stations in batangas
  • maricaban island
  • in situ
  • settling plate
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • balayan bay
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • calcification rate
  • national marine fisheries service
  • triennial
  • vegetation
  • fleshy macroalgae
  • climate
  • crustose coralline algae
  • twin rocks
  • koala reserve area
  • carbonate chemistry
  • arthur's reef
  • coral triangle initiative
  • batalang bato
  • cred
  • encrusting macroalgae
  • united states agency for international development
  • tingloy (13n120e0009)
  • philippines
  • reef habitat
  • twin rocks sanctuary (13n120e0005)
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  • ecosystem sciences division
  • esd
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  • nw pacific (limit-180)
  • calcification accretion unit (cau)
  • coral reef studies
  • arthur's rock (13n120e0002)
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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